For each of us Chinese, calligraphy is an art culture that each of us is very familiar with. This kind of art culture has been around since ancient my country, and there were many great calligraphers in ancient my country, and the works they left behind were amazed by later generations.
For our country, our art and culture are very rich. Not only does it contain calligraphy and art culture, but it also has an artistic culture. This also shows that our country's art culture and other cultures are very diverse, and it is precisely because of this that Chinese culture has a very wide influence in the world.
1. Rich family
Zhang Ruiling was born in a town in Hebei in the 1930s. His father is a very resilient person, and his father was born in a very poor state. In that chaotic era, most of our industries were controlled by Westerners, and his father, from a penniless young man, became a very famous local businessman through his own efforts and hard work.
Because my father started from scratch, the father paid great attention to cultivating the ability to endure hardships for his son. The father believed that if a boy could not endure hardship, then he would be useless wherever he was. So my father has trained Zhang Ruiling very extensively since he was a child, and he will also let him do some things that his peers cannot do in order to exercise his abilities.
My father’s assets are very large, so Zhang Ruiling has lived a life that is superior to his peers since he was a child. But his father had high requirements for him. When he did everything, his father would go through strict guidance and set strict requirements for him. If he could not meet the requirements, he would ask him to do it again. Therefore, Zhang Ruiling was very respectful of his father since he was a child.
2. Practice calligraphy
My father's capital has become larger, so he also began to cultivate his own interests. There are a lot of culture and art in our country, but my father has a special liking for calligraphy. He likes the meaning revealed in calligraphy very much, and he also likes to study calligraphy skills and the meaning contained in ancient poems and prose very much.
Under the influence of his father, Zhang Ruiling also began to develop a great interest in calligraphy. At that time, my father would spend a lot of money to make some very expensive calligraphy and paintings from outside and hang them at home. Zhang Ruiling also became very interested in these calligraphy and paintings since he was a child. Seeing this, his father invited him the best local calligraphy teacher to teach his son how to calligraphy.
Zhang Ruiling learns calligraphy with his teacher seriously every day. He spent a lot of effort practicing calligraphy. When the teacher finishes teaching, he will spend a lot of time practicing. Although the period of learning calligraphy was very long and boring, it brought him a good cultivation of his body and mind, and also made him understand that ancient Chinese poetry and prose were so humorous and meaningful.
3. Practice regular script
When Zhang Ruiling was learning calligraphy, his master taught him fonts such as official script and small seal . these fonts have made him very bored, so he wanted to practice other fonts.
Zhang Ruiling has a friend whose grandfather was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. The scholar had a great calligraphy skills at that time, and was able to write a very beautiful small regular script font. Once, Zhang Ruiling went to a friend's house to play and happened to see her friend's grandfather practicing regular script. Zhang Ruiling, who was very skilled at that time, felt like this font after seeing it.
So Zhang Ruiling began to learn regular script from this friend’s grandfather, and he spent a lot of time practicing regular script. In that era, the common fonts in our country were also regular script, and more and more people began to learn regular script.
In fact, in the Qing Dynasty, my country began to use regular script in fonts, but the regular script at that time was different from the regular script we use now. However, during the Republic of China period, people began to write in traditional Chinese characters and did not use regular script to write. The official standard font at that time was also traditional Chinese characters.
4. Join the work
When Zhang Ruiling was 15 years old, he was admitted to the local tax bureau. He worked in the tax bureau. His first important job was to issue invoices to others. At that time, people still used brushes when writing, and Zhang Ruiling was best at writing with brushes. The fonts on the bills he wrote were very beautiful and elegant, and it was this point that attracted the appreciation and attention of the leaders.
Although Zhang Ruiling has a job, he still uses his spare time to practice calligraphy, especially regular script when he gets off work. This makes his font more and more elegant, and at the same time makes his calligraphy skills become more and more profound.
A few years later, Zhang Ruiling was transferred to a factory to work. Because his fonts were written very well, the factory leader discovered that the leader asked him to do publicity. requires writing a lot of pictorials because of publicity, and Zhang Ruiling is also very good at doing publicity. After working in the factory for a few years, he was transferred to the bank to work again, and he also needed to write a lot of materials in the bank, so Zhang Ruiling used his fists and feet here again.
5. Gradually becoming famous
Zhang Ruiling came later because she wrote very well in regular script, so her reputation became more and more popular. At that time, our country focused on the education of primary and secondary school students, and letting primary school students write well was also a very important foundation for their future study career. At this critical moment, the educational agency asked Zhang Ruiling to formulate a standardized copybook for primary and secondary school students, and the characters in the homework books of primary school students in the 1980s and 1990s were written by Zhang Ruiling.
Later Xiamen University asked him to write an inscription for the school, and he wrote a picture of the university. This piece of calligraphy is 5.93 million, and gradually became more and more famous, and more and more schools and enterprises asked him to write inscriptions.
Later, he used his regular script calligraphy to create a set of Sun Tzu's Art of War written on silk. This set of artworks is called a very valuable work of art in modern China, and it also deeply expresses the long history and diversity of Chinese history and culture.
The set of Sun Tzu's Art of War he created also won the Guinness World Record. It is this incident that made many Chinese people know that his calligraphy skills are so profound.
6. Summary
Zhang Ruiling has practiced regular script for more than 70 years, and now he is 84 years old. He started practicing regular script at the age of 14. In that year, he deeply understood that regular script is such a charming font, so he devoted all his energy and all his time to specialize in practicing regular script.
His deeds also tell us that everyone will have their own interests, but these interests still require oneself to work hard. If you don’t work hard, then your previous efforts will be in vain. If you devote most of your energy to your interests, you will definitely be extraordinary.
